The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-14
WHY IRELAND DOES WELL TO
HATE US.


article appears in the Pail Mai Gazette
from which the following passages are
extracted
The decision of the Court of Queens
Bench in the case of Mr.. Dillon was
foreseen. Things would have come tc
pretty pass in Ireland if the Castle
could not depend on the bench to come
down heavily upon all whose good be.
haviour is impeached by the Crown
So far as Mr.. Dillon is concerned, the
decision of the judges matters about as
much as if Mr.. Justice O'Brien and Mr..
Justice johnson had been contempora-
ries of the laird Edward instead of the
chief magistrates of her Majesty the
Queen. But for the public it is very
serious matter. 1t is very uG-English,
all this star chamber work. In this
country we did not send Mr.. Hyndman
before couple of judges we tried him
by a jury at the Old Bailey, and the
jury acquitted him, as an Irish jury
would have acquitted Mr.. Dillon. But
if Mr.. Hyndman had been tried by two
judges in the Law Courts, the result
might lave been very different To
thrust judges into the place of jurors is
to bring the judgment seat into contempt.
We would not tolerate such proceedings
in England, where the judges and the
accused are not divided by the great
gulf which yawns between Irish Nation
alists and the Irish bench. How then
can we expect the Irish to like it, or to
do other than detest ii, and detest us
also because We compel them to submit
to it?ba: -.
1t is about time that our English
Trade Unions began to look into this
matter The battles which they fought
for the rightof combination in this coun-
try has still to be won in Ireland. Mr..
Justice O'Brien delivered justice yester-
day, just as many an English judge sum-
med up fifty years age and less when
charging juries empanelled to try Eng
lish workmen for the heinous crime OF
striking for higher wages. The whole
principle of Trades Unionism is at stake
in the issue raised across St. Georges
channel. There is always tendency
on tae part of legal and judicial author
tiles to regard all combinations as con-
spiracies, and, therefore, as criminal.
10 the working or peasant classes, whose
only safety lies in combination, this doc
trine is fatal. The capitalist or land
lord represents in himself a great COM
bination. But it is combination based
on authority. He does not incite, he
orders. He does not conspire, he en-
ploys, and therefore the law sees no
harm in his actions.
We appeal to the industrial leaders of
the English democracy in this matter,
for the politicians are but timid folk,
fearing always least bold word in ad-
vance Of public opinion might cost them
some points in the great game. The
Irish leaders by organization have sue
ceeded in practically extirpating outrage,
and as reward the Government steps
in and attempts to gag or imprson the
very man who taught the peasants q
better way than rattenlng or moonlight
ing. Not only so, but it is reported that
they are going to take vigorous measures
against all concerned in the Plan of
Campaign. Ifso, it will be necessary to
protest. and to protest energetically,
against measure that would all the
more be criminal because it might not
technically be illegal. There is no doubt
as to the necessity for an abatement in
Ireland. The good landlords have made
that abatement !; the bad landlords re-
fuse to do so. What is to be done to
save the tenants of the latter from the
wholesale clearances which the Standard
threatens? The Duke of Devonshire
gives his 'well-to-do tenants Is per cent
abatement, but Col Doping up in
poverty7pinched Gweedore refuses to
give his miserable cottiers single cent
relief. What ia more righteous and
necessary than that the oppressed should
unite to compel the concession of the
necessary reduction! The tenants can
not pay without an abatement. The
landlord can only ruin them and confis-
cate their property by attempting to
compel them to pay their rent in full.
Yet it is for recommending this that Mr..
Dillon is prosecuted and may be i'm
prisoned, and it is for this that the lead
ers of the Irish Peasants Union are
threatened with dire coercion. 1t is an
outrage against justice, and one which
in this country or in any other in VIII oh
the Government was organized on Eng
fish principles would provoke an instant
revolt Englishmen would not stand it,
and if the Irish do it will be only because
they know that if they resist there are
English soldiers enough to shoot down
every Irishman who would take the
field. And yet there are good people
who marvel that the Irish are not con-
tent. The Irish would deserve to be
slaves to all eternity if such treatment
did not make them resolve to use the
first opportunity of hingirg off yoke
capable of injustice so marked by cant
SO nause Gus.